Gold Mining & Water Co. v. Swinerton

23 Cal.2d 19 (1943)

GOLD MINING AND WATER COMPANY (a Corporation), Respondent,

v.

A. B. SWINERTON et al., Appellants.

Sac. No. 5539.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

Oct. 6, 1943.

Hartley F. Peart, Howard Hassard and Edward R. Solinsky for Appellants.

John L. McNab, S. C. Wright and Virgil Airola for Respondent.

CARTER, J.

Defendants appeal from a judgment awarding plaintiff damages in the sum of $25,000 for breach of the terms of a lease in failing to make certain improvements on the mining property covered thereby, and in the sum of $15,000 for breach of a covenant in said lease to develop and…